“Stupuere patres tentamina tanta,
    Conatusque tuos:  pro te Reus ipse timebat.”—­

“I must confess, however, that I wish for another, which may seem to bind him more closely to us in a medical point of view.  But it is time to leave the different members of our Fraternity at full liberty to propose any marks of distinction that they wish to suggest.—­It is sufficient for me to have reminded you of a truth, which I am confident we all equally feel, that, while we justly consider ourselves as students in the extensive school of Humanity, it becomes us to look up to Howard, with a laudable veneration, as the Prince and Patron of our Order.”

On the conclusion of this discourse, my Guides immediately conducted me, with their former celerity and kindness, to the only remaining Structure.  It was the most extensive, and, from the hallowed majesty of its appearance, the most admirable of the three.  In approaching it, I paused a moment in aweful surprise at the solemnity of the fabrick:  the most lovely and communicative of my two aetherial conductors smiled upon me, and said, “You will find here Ministers of god from every Christian country; but only those who consider Evangelical Charity as the essence of true Religion, and who are disposed to honour, in the favourite object of your veneration, the most signal example of that virtue, which the present age has beheld.”  “I hope then,” I eagerly replied, “I shall have the delight of hearing, on this occasion, the most eloquent of our English Bishops.”  On this exclamation, my kind informer regarded me with that lively and soothing air with which intelligent Benevolence corrects mistaken simplicity, and thus continued to instruct me with united vivacity and tenderness.

“Earthly distinctions, you know, are of little moment in the sight of Heaven.  You will hear no Prelate; and perhaps you may feel surprised and indignant, when you observe how very few of your Mitred Countrymen are to be seen in this Assembly; but you will not retain in this hallowed spot that most common of human infirmities, a tendency to censure or to suspicion.  You will recollect that this Convocation contains only those charitable men, who are peculiarly disposed to honour your recent model of this Christian virtue.  Other good men may exist, who, from motives of innocent mistake, or of mere inadvertency, may fail to exhibit that animated regard to his exemplary character, which assuredly it has merited from all men, and which the Ministers of Religion may most properly display.

“One of these,” continued my Director, “you are now going to hear; not, indeed, a Dignitary of your Church, yet a Divine of Talents, Learning, and Charity.  He was led, by a laudable warmth of heart, to suggest to your Country the first idea of paying a public tribute of veneration to the signal virtue of Howard; and has acquired from this circumstance a title to commemorate here the merit, to which he was eager to render such early justice on earth.  But it is time for us to attend him.”